Jose Pueblo Placencia y Villar

Jose Pueblo Placencia y Villar (3 May 1776-5 August 1823) was a general of the Portuguese Empire who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars, the Peninsular War, and the Brazilian War of Independence.

Biography
Placencia was born in Almeida, Portugal to a Portuguese and Spanish family. He was raised into wealth that came from his father's bricklaying business, and he enlisted in the army as a Corporal in the French Revolutionary Wars in 1795. Placencia's service in the war earned him the rank of Major and he saw further promotion to Colonel after the Battle of Albuera in the Peninsular War. From 1811 to 1815 he served as the Governor of Algarve under the jurisdiction of the British Crown, as they were occupying Portugal during the war.

In 1816 Governor Placencia was given the rank of Major General and sent to Brazil to put down unrest there that started with the neighboring countries' South American Wars of Independence. He raised a force of 8,000 troops to put down the Uruguayan Banda Oriental uprising in 1817, and when he returned to Brazil in 1823, he was ordered to use his troops against Brazilian revolutionaries. He met a small Brazilian force in the rainforests at Pajaro and defeated them, but he was shot in the chest, and since the nearest doctor was 50 miles away, he told his men to keep their camp, as he would not tire them out for his own sake. He died of wounds on 5 August, and a monument was built.